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Framing scandalous nursing home care
— what is the problem? | | Author(s) | Hakan Jonson |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 36, no 2, February 2016 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, February 2016 |
| Pages | pp 400-419 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Neglect [care] ; Elder abuse ; Nursing homes ; Interpretation ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | This article investigates different ways in which nursing home scandals in Sweden have been framed, discusses the relations between these existing frameworks, and identifies ways of describing the problem that are absent in the current debates. Data for the study consisted of media articles, television documentaries and internet debates, expert reports and court hearings, and interviews with representatives of organisations dealing with the issue of mistreatment in care services for older people. An analytical tool developed within social movement research was used to identify three 'debates' on such mistreatment in Sweden, where competing ways of framing the problem have been used: (a) a debate where staff are cast as either perpetrators or victims; (b) a debate on privatisation and profit as the motive for neglect of care recipients; and (c) a debate on deserving and non-deserving recipients of socially provided care centred around populist claims. The analysis highlights a need to introduce an alternative frame for interpretation where mistreatment in care for older people is regarded as involving scandalous cases of ageism. This anti-ageism frame would provide older people with a lead role in the drama - not just as victims but as stakeholders in relation to the problem. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160205208 A |
| Classmark | QNR: QNT: LHB: 4CC: 76P |
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